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Cormorant AWS wave buoy daily means for May 2020

Daily means from the Cormorant AWS wave buoy for May 2020, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

743 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 6.6 ft (10th–90th percentile 3.3–10.8 ft), while mean reported wave period; measurement type unavailable was 6.2 seconds (10th–90th percentile 5–8 seconds). Typical wind was 16.1 mph (10th–90th percentile 6.9–26.4 mph). 10 of 2,972 checked values (0.3%) were excluded by quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 6 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 6 seconds.

Generated only from the observations and comparisons shown on this page.

Typical Wave Height

6.6ft
Mean: 6.8 ft
P10–P90: 3.3 — 10.8 ft
Recorded extremes

2 — 19.4 ft

Available for 738 of 743 hourly samples

Mean Wave Period

6.2secs
P10–P90: 5 — 8secs
Recorded extremes

4 — 9secs

Available for 738 of 743 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 743 hourly samples

Typical Wind

Variable, 16.1mph
Mean: 16 mph
P10–P90: 6.9 — 26.4 mph
Recorded extremes

1.1 — 36.9 mph

Circular concentration: 27%

Compared With Previous Mays

Historical baseline from 4,419 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
6.8ft
0.8ft above mean
Historical mean 6ft
Wave Period
6.2s
0.2s above mean
Historical mean 6s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Cormorant AWS. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. To open hourly observations, use a linked day name in the table.

About Cormorant AWS wave buoy

Cormorant AWS (WMO 63112) is an automatic weather station on a privately operated oil platform in the northern North Sea. It is not a free-floating wave buoy. The station provides offshore meteorological observations for operations and forecasting; the parameters available through the international feed depend on the platform's installed sensors.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Cormorant AWS wave buoy daily means May 2020Last observation shown
Metric
Mean wave height (ft)7444677761110119781512544571185895432
Mean observed period(s)6Reported5Reported5Reported6Reported6Reported7Reported7Reported7Reported6Reported7Reported7Reported7Reported7Reported7Reported7Reported8Reported8Reported7Reported6Reported5Reported5Reported6Reported7Reported7Reported6Reported7Reported7Reported6Reported5Reported4Reported5Reported
Mean wave power(kW/m)-------------------------------
Mean wind directionEconcentration 91%Nconcentration 98%Nconcentration 97%NNWconcentration 93%WSWconcentration 97%WNWconcentration 94%Wconcentration 98%WNWconcentration 73%NWconcentration 87%Nconcentration 98%NNWconcentration 91%Nconcentration 98%NWconcentration 83%NWconcentration 68%NWconcentration 93%NWconcentration 98%NWconcentration 88%Econcentration 58%ESEconcentration 81%SSEconcentration 98%SSEconcentration 98%SSEconcentration 96%Sconcentration 98%NWconcentration 57%SSWconcentration 90%WSWconcentration 95%Wconcentration 99%SSWconcentration 83%Sconcentration 98%Sconcentration 98%Sconcentration 97%
Mean wind speed (mph)1215111017141313192622211781532206614182526161718171312138
Mean water temperature(°C)-------------------------------

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Wave & swell height0–40+ ft
Wave & swell period0–22+ s
Wind speed0–75 mph

The displayed numbers remain the source of truth; colour is an additional visual cue.

Which wave period is shown?

The table shows the best period measurement supplied for each observation. It is not necessarily the energy period used to calculate wave power.

Tp
Peak period: the period at the strongest spectral peak.
Tavg
The provider's average wave period.
Tm02
A mean period calculated from the wave spectrum.
Tz
Mean zero-crossing period.
Reported
A legacy value whose period type was not recorded.
Mixed
A daily or monthly mean containing more than one period type.

Wave power needs a genuine energy period (Te). SurfHog does not substitute Tp, Tavg, Tm02 or Tz when Te is missing.

What does buoy wave power mean?

kW/m means kilowatts of wave power per metre of wave crest. It describes the rate at which the observed sea state carries energy past the buoy.

Unlike the shore-directed forecast value, buoy wave power is the total power at the observation point. It is not projected towards a particular beach and does not predict breaking wave height.

In deep water, wave power can be calculated with:

P is approximately 0.49 times significant wave height squared times wave energy period.

P is power in kW/m, Hs is significant wave height in metres, and Te is wave energy period in seconds.

  • Provider-reported power is used when available.
  • Otherwise, a value is calculated only when both significant height and a genuine energy period are available. The ≈ symbol marks calculated values.
  • A dash is shown instead of substituting peak, Tm02, zero-crossing or other period measurements.
  • Daily and monthly figures use the mean of hourly-normalized observation power values; they are not calculated from mean height and period.

Wave direction, spectrum, water depth and local bathymetry still matter. Wave power is best read alongside height, period and direction rather than as a standalone surf-quality score.

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